The wind has turned: the Finns are working so hard at the movies, that the small cinemas just keeps popping up in new places

Korttelikinot have made a return to Helsinki, and they will likely add.

the Helsinki old bus station is a planned new movie theater, which plans are already in the long. Yle told them for the first time in the winter of 2018.

the Finnish cinema the president of the union of the Donald James according to the phenomenon only appears in Helsinki, for only the metropolitan area is sufficiently big market korttelikino for. They are an alternative to multiplex theatres.

– People want to find their own movie theater. One whose identity I can relate to, Jaakkola said.

in addition, the finns are now the movies more than a long time, and it encourages blocks kinot to run.

Jaakkola recalls that small cinemas have found their own audience, their capabilities through specialization.

One of them is in Töölö acting workshop Kino, which opened its doors in the winter of 2016. It runs movies also historic Bio rex in lasipalatsi in Helsinki.

Aale Teitto sell tickets and put on the movies bike to the repair shop Kino.Juha KIvioja/YLEPopcorn no fragrance

on Saturday afternoon a workshop Kino is quiet. The smell of the popcorn is gone, and the ticket to the cashier queues develop. In the foyer to hear the quiet chatter.

movie theater software the Downton Abbey pull show 10-20 spectators, and one of them, Aino Pennanen, tell me it was korttelikino in the software due to. He also likes the atmosphere, and in particular the rock located in the Riviera get it in terms of praise.

I don't check out the hit movies. Korttelikino has a slightly different range, Pennanen said.

Another in the same movie, going to the client, Jenni Kuusela , told me he was the first time in January, playing in the little theater.

– I Came here for a change. I have previously been a Finnkino theaters. I think support for such smaller players, Kuusela said.

the workshop Kino is a Saturday one employee. Aale Teitto moves to the cash register behind the movie theater door to check tickets, and that the engine room before he gets back to sell tickets to the next show.

Teitto tell you that the movie can also initiate a ticket from the cashier.

Helsinki to the old bus station is designed for the new cinema. If the project is implemented on schedule, the theater opened in the fall of 2021.Ilkka Kemppinen / Yle“This is a long-term job”

in Helsinki, was a long time a situation that korttelikino was only a memory left. Most prominently their heritage to maintain the Kino Engel and Orion, in which the National audiovisual institute (KAVI) i.e., the former film archives was showing movies.

during the last Five years the situation has changed dramatically.

Now HE has a movie theater ode in (Kino Regina), rock in Riviera, workshop Kino show movies in the shop and Bio Rex and Orion is back with new owners with korttelikino for. In addition to the Kaurismäki brothers open their Eerinkinkadulla location of Andorra Vallila Konepaja area.

the little theatre, the collection also includes the Kruununhaka near the location of the experimental WHY Union. And yet a short time ago a Part working the arabian beach from there moved to the Kino Sheryl. It's run by Aalto university's art students, but the theater was closed last summer.

Kino Sheryl cessation despite korttelikino to show sufficient demand.

Yes, their popularity will certainly tell the consumer behaviour change, and that it directs in a certain way value selection, korjaamo culture factory film on the activities of the corresponding Antti Knuuttila said.

She told me that the movie theater set up is a long-term job. Theater potential start knuuttila, according to the view of 3-5 years.

Then there is, of course, individual successes, such as the cliffs of the Riviera. It blew up practically in the hands of, Knuuttila said.

– blocks kinot of the popularity of tell consumer behaviour change, and that it directs in a certain way value selection, korjaamo culture factory film on the activities of the corresponding Antti Knuuttila said.Juha Kivioja/YLEBussiasemasta movie theater

block kinot of the latest newcomer is likely to be Helsinki's old bus station to be opened movie theatre. It is still the plan, but the project of enthusiasts Ari Tolppanen believes that the theatre was born. Tolppanen is a private equity group capman's founder, and he was back in the day in the movie theater Nordian operational.

the New theater is being planned on the overall experience. It related to both technology and high-quality catering services.

the Software is Tolppanen, and indie films that high-quality studio films. In addition to the new theatre to put their software there are also special kits.

– Software combinations, this place and its overall experience are those which we believe are competing well with other cinemas with a, Tolppanen said.

the Old bus station, plans for a new movie theater is part of a broader development plan.

If the project is realized, the glass palace square will become a cultural merger, which the Finnish-Swedish cultural association Konstsamfundet management. It's run by the art museum of Amos Rex.

the Association already owns the glass palace, and according to the plan also the old bus station will move from the city konstsamfundet's ownership.

If the plan proceeds on schedule, and the city of Helsinki will adopt it, the new movie theater opened in the fall of 2021.

Ari Tolppanen is Helsinki's old bus station for a planned movie theater enthusiasts.Juha Kivioja/YleTilaa Yle newsletters!

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